There is so much with the Christmas story that is meaningful to man at any time of the year. So much that should cause us to be in awe (wonder, reverence, admiration, worship) of God’s love for mankind. Once again I am in awe of God’s desire to come into His creation to pay a debt that man could never pay. I am in awe of ‘Immanuel’, God with Us, in the person of Christ our Lord. I am in awe of God’s message the night Christ was born, “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a ‘SAVIOR’, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2:11) What man needed that night, is still the need of mankind today, a ‘SAVIOR’! Jesus reminds us in the Sermon on the Mount that, “…your Father knoweth what things ye have NEED of, before ye ask Him.” (Matt. 6:8) Man’s greatest need does not rest with the material but the spiritual and for this need to be met we needed a Savior! So God ‘graced’ a young virgin name Mary and that which was conceived in her was of the Holy Ghost! “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for He SHALL SAVE His people from their sins.”
(Matthew 1:21)
From the Christmas story we learn how the shepherds received the heavenly message, about the birth of the child in Bethlehem, with great joy (happiness, thrill, ecstasy). The Bible tells us that the shepherds made ‘haste’ (speed, rush, swiftness) to get to Bethlehem to see this gift of God the ‘Savior’. At any point in our lives there should be an energy involved in the worship of Christ the Lord. Isn’t it amazing how going to the place of worship, to worship our Savior, turns out to be a drudgery (labor, chore, grind). As believers there should be an every present joy about the worship of Christ the Lord, “a joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.”
Something else the shepherds did that must be done, by those who know this Savior, the Bible said they made known this story of the birth of the Savior. The Bible also tells us that people who heard the story from the Shepherds were in a state of wonder (miracle, marvel, amazement, sensation) concerning this Savior. Jesus, who is the light of the world, told His followers to let their light shine in this world of darkness, and to go into all the world and share the story of His birth, life, death, burial and resurrection, which is the ‘Good News’!
One other truth, from the Christmas story, that has amazed me since I was a young boy and that was when they arrived in Bethlehem “there was no room for them in the inn.” It seemed to me that a man with his wife, who was about to give birth, should have been given a room even if it meant someone had to give up their room. It just seemed to me that someone should have been kind enough to give their room for this couple. Yet, I have come to realize that there are still a lot of people who make “no room” for the Savior. If you are so busy in “your room, or, life” that you don’t have room for the Savior, “you’re too wrapped up in your room, or, life”.
So many truths come from the Christmas story that must be applicable all year long, not just during the Christmas season.
SEE YOU SOON – BRO. ED